Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 6, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

And the total amount of inventory on hand to provide the next-day service that both facilities promise their customers is also much lower in the second distribution center. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Cargo

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Ongoing disruptions in the Middle East are driving up supply chain costs across energy, transportation, insurance, inventory, and technology. Prepare CFOs for Cost Volatility Ongoing disruptions in the Middle East are driving up supply chain costs across energy, transportation, insurance, inventory, and technology. ( What do you say?

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

The second component of USBLC, inventory carrying costs (28.4% in 2023), were barely up from 2023 last year under the reports calculation, which includes the cost of warehousing and inventory levels but also the cost of capital (which drives the cost of holding inventory). of the total (versus 64.1% of the total, versus 28.6%

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 31, 2025

That marked the first time the vacancy rate surpassed 7% since 2014, as businesses rushed extra inventory into their existing warehouses earlier this year and then paused decision-making during the Trump administration’s on-again, off-again tariff rollout. in the second quarter from 6.9% the previous quarter and 6.1% See graphic below.)

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

South Africa

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 8, 2025

Replenishment of the split case locations became the bottleneck, in part because of an issue I still have never seen a great solution for: when volumes for a wave will wipe out a location’s inventory, but the required replenishment exceeds the location’s capacity when it arrives. Where do you put the stuff? That is huge progress to celebrate!

Distribution

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

Another manager in the computers and electrics sector stated that: “Tariffs continue to cause confusion and uncertainty for long-term procurement decisions. The Inventories Index registered 49.2, meaning companies in total decreased inventory in the month, but at a slower pace. a little up from 48.5 Supply Chain Digest Says.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 5, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Analysis

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 4, 2025

The Inventories Index registered 48.9, meaning companies in total decreased inventory in the month, and at a slower pace. market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As reported last month by Jennifer Smith in the Wall Street Journal , “A growing number of retailers are relying on suppliers to ship online orders directly to customers, a strategy they hope will help them compete with e-commerce rivals without spending more on inventory. The drop-shipping process involves the sharing of information (e.g.,

Supply Chain Network Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

Foreign-Trade Zones Hits All-time High of $99Bn in 2014 Bloomberg Southwest Falls on $1B Profit Cut From Tariff Fallout More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! Retailer Over Boycott of Xinjiang Cotton Liquor Control Board of Ontario: CPFR-Partnerships & Profits Exports From U.S.

Optimal Sourcing

GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2014

We continue our top blog posts of 2014 from our main categories today by focusing on something at Cerasis we are experts in : Logistics. In fact, the logistics space is so broad, we couldn’t give you only the top 10 blog posts of 2014, but we had to include the top 15. Top 15 Logistics Blog Posts of 2014.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. Orbit Chart for SanDisk for 2006-2014. Most supply chain planning teams do not know their customers.

Inventory Reduction

Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

While consumers may see some short-term benefit in the form of discounted goods, many retailers have had to reset investor expectations , reflecting the expected hit on margins from carrying so much inventory. Inventory management is challenging enough in normal times. So, what is it going to take to enable better inventory management?

Inventory Management Software

GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2015

The biggest implication of this new imposition on procurement process is that now procurement managers have to deliver suppliers that are cost conscious and timely in their operations but at the same time can adapt to the changing demands of end customers. One of these trends, in addition to inventory keeping, is dual/multi-sourcing.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2015

Procurement focus shifted from traditional programs focused on solely on contract management, price and term negotiations, and supplier scorecards to include the evolution of supplier development to manage product quality and multi-tier supplier relationships in and across value chain relationships. Focus on Multi-Tier Inventory Management.

Supply Chain Design Software

GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Editor's Note: As of late you may have noticed we have written a lot about procurement and the future of procurement. A large part of procurement is finalizing the contract and then the follow through of the determined deliverables in that agreement. For example: Inventory Record Accuracy has to be 98-100% accurate daily.

KPI

Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. When we compare the results of P&G to its peer group for 2012-2021, P&G outperforms in inventory turns and margin but underperforms in growth and asset utilization. Was this by design? My reasoning?

Procurement Analytics